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Fritz Lang’s moody 1954 thriller film noir Human Desire is a follow-up to his 1953 success The Big Heat, and again stars both Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame. Director Fritz Lang’s moody 1954 thriller film […]
This splendid 1924 classic silent Western from the Fox Film Company and the already expert young director John Ford virtually invented the vocabulary of the genre. The characters’ lives are set against the background of […]
English villagers take direct action when their rail line faces heartless government closure by running it themselves. Charles Crichton’s 1953 Ealing Studios comedy gem The Titfield Thunderbolt glories in the antique values of the […]
Director Henry King’s 1939 Western is marvellous vintage action entertainment with a provocative central idea of the outlaws being dubiously reinvented as heroes, just like in Robin Hood or Bonnie and Clyde. That’s how the […]
Joan Crawford stars in Johnny Guitar as the strong-willed, gun-toting saloon queen called Vienna in her first Western since 1928’s The Law of the Range. Nicholas Ray’s 1954 camp, kitsch Western is irresistibly strange, indeed quite outlandish, and […]
Anything goes in Mel Brooks’s hilarious 1974 Western spoof comedy classic film Blazing Saddles. The residents of the little Western town of Rock Ridge find themselves the pathetic victims of its corrupt political boss, the […]